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Guiding Light tapes last episode

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bpatrick

Yesterday (11th) "Guiding Light" taped its last
episode, the one which will air Sept. 18. No
details are being given out, so we'll have to watch
and see if Josh and Reva live happily ever after.

The CBS affiliate in Florence-Myrtle Beach ran a
story on its 5 PM news yesterday; it included an
interview with Kim Zimmer, who is afraid that at
her age (54) this is it for her, career-wise. She
also lamented not being able to work with Robert
Newman (Josh) anymore. Henceforth, the only
man in her life will be her real-life husband, actor
A.C. Weary.

I wasn't aware that Reva's been married nine times;
I think that outpaces Mickey Rooney and Zsa Zsa
Gabor.

I have said before that daytime is going to seem
strange without the "Light" shining at 10 AM or 3 PM
(or 9 AM), but the show's been digging its own grave
for years.
 
Reva and Josh have been married at least four separate times. I believe the GL writers made the 50th anniversary of the appearance on television their fourth marriage.

Will the writers make the final episode their fifth?
 
Reva's also been married to Josh's brother
Billy, as well as Jeffrey (whom she mistakenly
believes is dead).

I'm anxious to see if Josh and Reva get married
for the fifth time on Sept. 18.
 
bpatrick said:
I wasn't aware that Reva's been married nine times;
I think that outpaces Mickey Rooney and Zsa Zsa
Gabor.
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Eileen Fulton on As the World Turns plays
Lisa Miller Hughes Eldridge Shea Colman McColl Mitchell Grimaldi Chedwyn (8 times married)

Victoria Wyndham on Another World played
Rachel Davis Matthews Clark Frame Cory Cory Cory Hutchins (7 times)

Susan Lucci on All My Children plays
Erica Kane Martin Brent Cudahy Chandler Montgomery Montgomery Marrick Marrick Marrick (9 times)

The late Phil Carey on One Life to Live played one of soaps' most married men
Asa Buchanan, married to: Olympia Buchanan (no known maiden name?), Pamela Oliver Stuart, Samantha Vernon, Delila Ralston, Becky Lee Abbott, Pamela Oliver Stuart, Renee Divine, Blair Cramer, Alex Olanov, Alex Olanov, Renee Divine, Gabrielle Medina, Gretel Rae Cummings, and Renee Divine (yes, kids, that's 14 times!!).
 
Before the "Light" is permanently shut off, we'll be
seeing some familiar faces. Holly (Maureen Garrett)
returned yesterday, and expect to see Fletcher (Jay
Hammer) before the "Light" goes dark. Beverlee
McKinsey, the best Alexandra Spaulding, did a lot of
scenes with Hammer; she was a script person while he
knew his character so well he could throw away his
script and ad-lib his part. That used to run her crazy,
but somehow it worked out. I can still remember his
pet name for her, "Duchess."

Maybe if the producers had hung onto these characters
(Alexandra excepted, although Marj Dusay isn't nearly as good)
the show would be going on into 2010. They were far more fun
to watch than what they have now.
 
Is Roger going to be ressurected again? (Haven't wtached GL in years, but seems like I remember him dying at least twice).
 
And they wouldn't have a replacement actor for Michael
Zaslow anyway. Right after his death the show hired a
guy named Dennis Parlato, and the audience immediately
rejected him. He didn't seem disappointed when he was
let go; he admitted that Zaslow's were a huge pair of shoes
to fill.
 
I beleive the character had married Amanda Spaulding, and died off screen. Wasnt there a plot line with a last will and testament and a son?
 
gr8oldies said:
Been easier just to have shacked up 8 to 14 times.Skip the lawyers and just say "next!".
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Elizabeth Taylor might tend to disagree with you there.
 
Studio20 said:
I beleive the character had married Amanda Spaulding, and died off screen. Wasnt there a plot line with a last will and testament and a son?
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I didn't see it, but I do seem to recall a clipfest tribute and about the same time a long-lost son appeared.

The oldest clip GL ever shows on retrospectives is one from 1980, wherein Roger and Ed Bauer are
in a fight on a cliff in the Caribbean (IIRC, the ostensible reason is which one is going to get Holly); Roger falls off the cliff and we're left to speculate on his fate (a running joke among fans is that a couple of CIA agents were waiting at the bottom and recruited him, since when he resurfaced around 1989 he was a CIA agent using the name Adam Malick, and for a time was seen wearing a mask).

Sort of irrelevant, but I guess from now on (or at least for another year), if you want a villain who
presumably dies and resurfaces over and over again, and has fathered a couple of thousand kids, your best bet is James Stenbeck on As The World Turns.
 
bpatrick said:
Sort of irrelevant, but I guess from now on (or at least for another year), if you want a villain who presumably dies and resurfaces over and over again, and has fathered a couple of thousand kids, your best bet is James Stenbeck on As The World Turns.
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Sorry, but Days of Our Lives Stefano DiMera is way above James Stenbeck, in both coming back to life and being a baby-making machine!
 
There are probably many ATWT fans that will disagree with that one, especially right now, as a current young male character has recently been revealed to be James' son. Apparently the plot thickens as much as the world turns 8)
 
Add WUSA Washington, DC, to the list of stations carrying
Let's Make A Deal at 10 AM. For the week of September 14,
they're showing GL at 10, with the new Dr. Oz show at 3,
which tells me that LMAD will be on at 10 when it debuts.
And my gut thinks there'll be quite a few more that opt to
carry Deal in the morning.
 
Add two more that carried GL in the afternoon but will
have LMAD in the morning: WTVR Richmond and WIAT
Birmingham. And if anybody knows of any other stations
that will follow suit, I'd like to hear about it.

Apparently CBS will keep the three-feed (9 AM, 10 AM,
3 PM) setup it used with GL; WKMG Orlando, which carried
GL at 9 AM, is carrying LMAD at the same time; three that
I've mentioned (WUSA, WTVR, WIAT) will have LMAD at
10 ET (Washington, Richmond)/9 CT (Birmingham). I
don't look for any of GL's morning stations to run LMAD at
a different time.

A few I've seen which will carry LMAD at 3/2 include KTVT
Dallas/Ft. Worth, WTSP Tampa/St. Petersburg, WLKY Louisville,
WSPA Greenville/Spartanburg/Asheville, and WLTX Columbia, SC.
 
Add a few more to the list of LMAD's afternoon stations:
KENS San Antonio, WTKR Norfolk, VA, WJHL Bristol/Kingsport/
Johnson City, WILM Wilmington, NC, WKYT Lexington, KY and
its sister station WYMT Hazard, KY. All carried GL at 3/2.
 
Anyone know if the two CBS affiliates that passed on GL (KOVR-Sacramento and WNEM-Flint/Bay City, MI--the latter station IIRC put GL on their MyNetwork subchannel) will or won't air the new LMAD?
 
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